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‘ABOR ROUNDUP:

‘NOT FISHING” SAY HERRINGMEN

Herring fishermen members
of the United Fishermen &
Allied Workers union “didn’t:
go fishing” on Tuesday, Oct.
16, the date upon which their
contract with operators ex-
pired.

The fishermen are demand-
ing a price of $16 a ton for
herring caught for reduction
purposes, which is an increase
of $3 a ton over the price of
$13 paid in 1958 and 1959.
The union also feels that her-
ring used for canning, salting,
etc. should be worth $20 a
ton (1c a lb.) and is demand-
ing an automatic increase of
1/78th in the basic price
should the fleet rise to more
than 78 vessels at any time.

Operators have offered no
increase over last year’s price
of $10.40 a ton.

new Soviet

lsarmament concession

of defense in the event of any-
one deciding, as some Western
personalities fear, to violate the
treaty and conceal missiles or
military aircraft.”’

Gromyko said this Soviet con-
cession was in an effort to begin
a “tangible advance’ toward dis-
armament.

He said the Western powers
were responsibe for holding up
disarmament and charged the
proposals. they brought with them
to the Geneva disarmament con-
ference ‘‘are stuffed with every-
thing you please except the main
thing, a readiness to consent to
the scrapping of national war
machines. They are still based
on the striving to establish con-
trol over armaments and not over
disarmament . . .”

The Soviet foreign minister re-
called that in 1960 Soviet Premier
Khrushchev told the U.N. the
Soviet Union was prepared to ac-
cept any Western control pro-
posal for general and complete
disarmament.

“It is two years now that we
have been waiting for an answer,”
added Gromyko.

The Vancouver Labor
Council at its last meeting
voted to endorse the follow-
ing labor candidates in the
Burnaby municipal elections:
Russell Hicks, Jim Dailley,
Arnie Hansen and Carl Erick-
son for Councillor; Irene
Dailley, G. Jackson and B.
Burke for the School Board.

Lone labor candidate in
North Vancouver, so far, is

aldermanic candidate Russ
McKibbon. Further endors-
ations are expected.

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Council also debated the
role played (or not played)
by Civil Defence during last
week’s violent wind storm
in Vancouver. Many delegates
denounced CD, as well as the
system of overhead wires
which accounted for many
power failures.

Other delegates pointed out
that the BC Telephone and
BC Hydro authority should
not escape paying their fair
share of storm damage costs.

Peace Week

The Canadian Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament
has urged Prime Minister
Diefenbaker and the 10
provincial premiers to pro-
claim the week of Nov. 5-
11 as Peace Week in Can-
ada.

The request is contained
in letters sent to Diefen-
baker and the premiers by
Mr, Justice J. T. Thorson.

U.S. Bars

Cont'd from pg. 1

The fact that Orville Braa-
ten is the chairman of the
Columbia River for Canada
Committee, and has taken a
c:itical stand of the U.S. pol-
icy towards Cuba, undoubied-
ly had much to do with the
action of the U.S.

The action of the U.S. Im-
migration Department, an d
failure of Attorney-General
Robert Kennedy to take any
action to interfere, will be
roundly condemned by Cana-
dian trade unionists.

Mine Mill indicates

INCO fight

An urgent demand that the
Ontario Labor Relations
Board immediately reconsider
its split decision to certify the
Steelworkers at the Interna-
tional Nickel Company oper-
ations in Sudbury was made
last week by Canadian Pre-
sident Ken Smith of. the In-
ternational Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers.

“We are absolutely unable

to understand this action by
the board and reject it in its
entirety,’ Smith stated. “The
decision would indicate that
the Ontario board is prepared
to ignore its own regulations
and turn its back on the legi-
timate rights of the workers
in Canada’s largest local
union. :
“In the face of clear evi-
dence, painstakingly gathered
and presented to them over a
long period of time they have
seen fit to come out with a
split decision that is obvious-
ly loaded with the grossest
contradictions.

“The weight of this evi-
dence is given clear-cut ex-
pression in the minority dis-
senting decision brought
down by one member of the
three-man board. His conclu-
sion that there should be a
new vote ordered would be
the least that the board
should expect thinking people
to accept.

“We have conclusively
shown in. our appearances be-
fore the board that the vote
conducted in Sudbury last
spring contained irregularities
and gross violations of the el-
ection rules the board laid
down and is pledged to main-
tain. Our evidence proved
that there were more ballots
‘than voters and that Steel de-
liberately violated the 72-hr.
‘silent’ period before the vote.

“The callous attempt by the
board to pass this off lightly
will never be accepted by our
members or anyone in the
Canadian labor movement.

“On top of this, of course,
the revelation of blatant for-
geries which appeared in the
course of the Steel campaign
in Sudbury will not be ignor-
ed by democratic Canadians
and we will not allow the.

mot over

board to.

“We are well aware that

the long delay in arriving at
this decision was sought by
the board in order to allow
the stink surrounding the
public exposure of forgeries
to subside.
“We are also aware that the
release of their decision at
this time is deliberately in-
tended to influence the out-
come of our local union elec-
tions scheduled in Sudbury
for Oct. 24.

“The members of Mine Mill
are not going to tolerate arbit-
rariness and interference by
the Labor Relations Board in

. property of our members. The

board is duty bound to ad-
minister labor relations and
the Labor Relations Act hon-
estly and it is our intention
to see that they do just that.

“We intend to do every-
thing in our power to remind
the board of its responsibili-
ties to prevent this gross mis-
carriage of justice.

“Our immediate demand is
that they reconsider their ar-
bitrary decision in the cold
light of reality and bring for-
ward a ruling based on the
regulations they put before
all parties in the Sudbury
election as indicated in the
dissenting opinion.”

Harvey Murphy, Western
president of Mine Mill told
the PT that the labor board’s
decision “wasn’t unexpected.”

“However,” Murphy con-
tinued, “the board will learn
that no board can set up a
union—only the workers can
do- that.

“The situation in Sudbury
now is precisely what we
have maintained that it will
be all along . .. the only real
winner of anything is the
International Nickel Com-
pany, which is now operating
as if there were no union in
Sudbury.

“It is refusing to recognize
any shop steward and the
chances are good that it will
refuse to negotiate with any-
one.

“Steel has not only split the
workers in two—it has dis-
credited trade unionism,”
Murphy concluded.

Se

CUBANS PREPARE AIR DEFENCE. Photo shows units of
Le Cuban People’s Army engaged in exercises. Last week
pirates financed from the U.S. launched another hit and run

attack near Havana. The U.S.

continues to step up its pro-

vocations despite appeals by the Cuban government for talks
to ease tension in the Carribean,

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